Since it won the 2017 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the announcement of a new season by Dallas Theater Center is a big deal. And the 2019-2020 season announced Friday offers, in the words of Charles Dickens, great expectations.

For one, there will be a world premiere, and how's this for embracing the headlines? The Supreme Leader is a fictionalized coming-of-age comedy about — are you ready? — North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

"I love introducing Dallas Theater Center audiences to fresh, new playwriting voices and surprising stories," said artistic director Kevin Moriarty. "The Supreme Leader has both of those. Don Nguyen is a playwright with a smart, funny, personal way of seeing the world. His play is a coming-of-age comedy about teenagers at a boarding school, but one of those teens is Kim Jong Un, who we all know as the threatening dictator of one of America's greatest adversaries."

Of course, anything having to do with the Broadway sensation Hamilton, directly or indirectly, creates a whole lot of buzz. Before he wrote Hamilton, Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote In the Heights, a splashy musical that's part of the new season.

Dates are tentative and subject to change, but In the Heights is scheduled to usher in the new season on Sept. 21.

This Feb. 29, 2008 picture shows Lin-Manuel Miranda, center, and members of the cast in a scene from the musical In the Heights, playing at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York.

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Other highlights include ANN, a portrait of the late Ann Richards, who served as governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. The season will also include Little Women, Kate Hamill's new adaptation of the classic book; American Mariachi, a feel-good comedy with music; and Pipeline, a drama about the state of American education.

The season will also include the annual presentation of A Christmas Carol and the fourth year of Public Works Dallas, which the theater describes as "a community engagement and participatory theater project designed to deliberately blur the line between professional artists and Dallas community members." The production will include 200 cast members; only five will be professional actors.